How much does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd give?

Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd reported 12 grants totaling $61,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (22%), Human Services (17%).

Who are Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Alabama Law School Foundation ($71k), Young Womens Christian Assn of Birmingham ($33k), Sight Savers of America Inc ($29k).

Does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Maynard Nexsen Foundation, Protective Life Foundation.

Where is Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd based?

Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd is based in AL.

Foundation Dossiers

Alabama · Private foundation

Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,600
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 13; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $953k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationEmploymentHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$61k	0%
FY2024	13	$61k	8%
FY2023	12	$55k	8%
FY2022	12	$55k	33%
FY2021	11	$53k	0%
FY2020	12	$52k	8%
FY2019	13	$45k	15%
FY2018	13	$54k	15%

88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$112kEducation$110kHuman Services$83kCrime & Legal$71kReligion$25kYouth Development$15kEmployment$14kAnimals$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Alabama Law School Foundation	$71,350	8	0%
Young Womens Christian Assn of Birmingham	$32,700	5	0%
Sight Savers of America Inc	$29,188	9	0%
Lakeshore Foundation	$29,188	9	0%
Kings Home Inc	$28,988	9	0%
Prichard Preparatory School Inc	$19,900	6	0%
The Restoration Academy	$14,588	5	0%
The Workshops Inc	$14,400	4	0%
National Federation of the Blind of Alabama	$14,400	6	5%
Glenwood Inc	$14,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Alabama Law School Foundation	$71,350	8	0%
Young Womens Christian Assn of Birmingham	$32,700	5	0%
Sight Savers of America Inc	$29,188	9	0%
Lakeshore Foundation	$29,188	9	0%
Kings Home Inc	$28,988	9	0%
Prichard Preparatory School Inc	$19,900	6	0%
The Restoration Academy	$14,588	5	0%
The Workshops Inc	$14,400	4	0%
National Federation of the Blind of Alabama	$14,400	6	5%
Glenwood Inc	$14,000	4	0%
Hand in Paw Inc	$5,738	2	0%
Troy University Foundation	$2,100	1	0%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd

How much does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd give?: Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd reported 12 grants totaling $61,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (22%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Alabama Law School Foundation ($71k), Young Womens Christian Assn of Birmingham ($33k), Sight Savers of America Inc ($29k).
Does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Maynard Nexsen Foundation, Protective Life Foundation.
Where is Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd based?: Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd is based in AL.